CHANCELLOR PASQ17IER'S REMINISCENCES.* This is essentially a foreign work, written by one Frenchman, edited by another, translated by an American, and printed at Boston, United...

LOYDON : JUNE 30, 1894.

SIR RICHARD BURTON'S account of his visit to Gelele, King of Dahomey, and his adaptation of " Vikram and the Vampire," form the second and third volume of this very interesting...

gallery that connects the towers on the west front of Notre-Dame, have discovered the extraordinary company of grotesque figures that are sculp- tured there in a somewhat loose...

Tars is a deeply interesting book. In it Mr. and Mrs. Webb have done their best to give the public a fair and accurate history of Trade-Unionism. If they have not entirely suc-...

THE appearance of General Tweedie's work upon the Arabian horse—the publication of which has been more than once delayed by the author's determination to leave no point...

new edition of a book which was worth reprinting, for it represents a great deal of conscientious work among memoirs and histories of the last century; and though its...

Mrs. Curgenven of Curgenven. By S. Baring-Gould. (Methuen.) —It is scarcely necessary to say that this is a spirited and eminently readable tale. So much it is safe to predicate...

two young English girls, with a small capital and a taste for an independent life, should think of emigrating to South Africa and cultivating a fruit farm, does not sound very...

a rule books of this type pall even on the appetite of the racing man; they are so egotistical, and some trivial detail will be threshed out for pages, but Mr. Custance's...

Sir M. Monier Williams. (Archibald Constable.)— It is possible that some of the present generation may not know that Old Haileybury College, as distinguished from the New (a...

Sands, and Foster.)—Mrs. Macquoid never writes a story that is other than pretty, graceful, and in various ways pleasant. Her latest story has all these good qualities, and it...

T. Wawn. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. W. T. Wawn, "Master-Mariner," as he describes himself, was engaged for sixteen years in the Labour Trade as master of a recruiting...

English Church. By the Rev. J. H. Lupton. (Bell and Sons.)—This is a careful review of the position and work of the munificent Founder of St. Paul's School. Mr. Lupton has...

and Son.)—There is something noteworthy about this " Crofter Chronicle." The locality of the story is unfamiliar. North and South list are islands which few people see, and of...

V. White and Co.)—If Miss Warden has been setting herself to draw a picture of an ideally foolish woman, she must certainly be allowed to have succeeded in her aim. The heroine,...

are reprinted from the Strand Magazine. The principle of interviewing being accepted—and it seems hopeless to protest against it—they are good papers of the kind, pleasantly and...

begins with Bacon, and ends with Sir Roger L'Estrange, covering a period of fifty-six years if we reckon from the birth-date, of seventy-eight if we take the interval between...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—Mr. Inderwick lays the scene of his story in Romney Marsh ; the time is the end of the French War ; the principal characters are the " Prisoner " and...

White and Co.)—It is only fair to say that Miss Russell's book is not difficult to read. It is extended indeed to the orthodox three volumes ; but the pages are few, about seven...

Rev. J. H. Wauklyn. Vols. L and II. (Bemrose and Sons.)—These two volumes are the first instalment of a work which is to be com- pleted in eight. The plan followed is to give a...

R.N. (Cassell and Co.)—This is a vigorous and exciting " tale of the slave trade." Commander Harding's style is somewhat up:- finished, but it is sufficient for its purpose,...

(Bickers and Son.)—Miss Sim has tried her hand on eight of the plays, having judiciously selected some that were easiest to deal with. She challenges, it may be said, comparison...

and Co.)—Mr. Duff's first chapter deals with " Steps towards the Invention." Such steps he finds in the impress of a maker's name found on ancient amphorae and lamps, and such...

and Windus.)—Mr. Francillon's work is bound always to have a certain value, but we cannot think that this value is as great, or, let us say, as easily discernible in Tack...

Co.) —Mr. Stanley Weyman has made a certain period of French history in- a peculiar Sense his own domain. If anything was wanted, aftr the brilliant success of the "Xouse of the...

during the next few months, may be mentioned together. These are, Parish Councils : a Handbook to the Local Government Act, 1894, by Portland B. Akerman and Percy H. Ford...

some twenty years ago, and has been followed by not a few imitations. It is interesting to read it again, especially in the light of the preface which Miss Jewitt has prefixed...

Rochester. (Edward Arnold.)—These Addresses have the merits, and occasionally the faults, of the lecture and the sermon. Written for the platform and pulpit, the speaker's...

Windus.)—The author of this story is a well-known playwright, who, since its original publication, has served a twenty-years apprenticeship to the art of dramatic plot-weaving....

Co.)—Mr. Moore has collected a number of anecdotes, of which we might give the description which Martial gives of his epigram, but with the omission of the bona guczedam. It...

Don" (who might as well have put his name on the title- page of this volume as he subscribed it to the articles of the Portfolio) discourses very pleasantly and smartly about...

Long.)—This "Centenary Essay" is a sufficiently fair estimate of a remarkable woman. Now and then the style admits of an improvement, as when, for instance, we read that the...

and Sons) we have two volumes of a proposed translation of Virgil. These are The Bucolics and The Georgics, translated by Hamilton Bryce, LL.D. Both appear to be carefully...

the Work of John Addington Symonds, by Lieutenant-Colonel Alfred Pearson. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—The character and, we may say, the value of this book are sufficiently...

apt to An Old Kirk Chronicle : being a History of Auldhame, Tyning• think it was easily written. On the contrary, there are traces name, and TVhitekirk. in East Lothian. By the...

;" and other entries show that the employment was not a rare one.

edited by Mr. Aitken, who published a few years a g o a copious Frederick of Prussia, on the contrary, turned a cold shoulder on bio g raphy of Steele. He is of course, as the...

lower yet, in spite of a poisonous atmosphere, foul water, and a swarmin g standpoint of the circulatin g library The Days of His Vanity must population, a g entleman who had...

—Miss . Wakefield's interest in music, and her admiration for Mr. Ruskin, have led her to collect passages in his writings bearing on the subject, and to arrange them in a...

H. Emerson. (Nutt.)— Most of these tales were either collected by the author in Anglesea, or are extracted from William's " Observations on the Snowdon Mountains," a book...

Shannon. (Elkin Mathews and John Lane.)—This volume follows up the edition of "Daphnis and Chloe," illustrated by the same artists, and recently reviewed in the . Spectator. The...

75, & 78 Great Queen Street, W.O.; and Published by ,Torfn JAMES Hum, of No. 1 Wellington Street, in the Precinct of the Savoy, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at the "...

and - Italy that the assassin should belong to the latter people. The Governments of both countries understand that the in- cident has no national meaning, as of course the...

ever recorded took place at the Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, South Wales. When the explosion took place, there were over 270 men and boys down the pit, but of these only fifteen...

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accom- plished rapidly and easily. Under the Constitution, in the event of the President's death, the Assembly must meet within three days, and it was accordingly summoned by...

• T HE Anarchists have struck another blow,—this time with lamentable success. They have for some time been threatening President Carnot with death, for refusing to com- mute...

case.

the British Economic Association, when Professor J. Shields Nicholson read a paper on "Political Economy and Journalism," which Mr. Balfour described as full of " brilliant...

nesday,—one of those speeches in which the orator inflates himself with the exalting air of his own party prepos- sessions, and for a time renders himself unconscious of the...

made the interesting announcement that be could never become a Peer. In speaking of Lord Welby, he said that he was severed from him for ever, so far as public life is...

come into collision. The Government of Pretoria is at war with some native chiefs, and in its usual way has summoned citizens below a certain age to do military service. The...

was safely delivered of a son, who. if the Monarchy lasts, as we all hope it will, will one day be King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India. The event has given...

at the Congress on University Extension, held. in the building of the University of London. His sympathy with the movement was very hearty, but he did not altogether go with...

to Speaker Onslow had been corrected, and that in reality he had declared that " until the King by writ of sum- mons called a man up to the House of Peers, that man could not...

to a question of privilege. Last Tuesday the motion for the issue of a new writ for the election of a Member to serve for the Attercliffe Division was moved on the ground that...

a war between China and Japan; but the chance of one is coming very close. The Government of Corea has been -oppressing its Japanese settlers, and the Japanese, who have a right...

the Governor-General of Canada taking the chair. The Conference, before beginning business, carried a warm address to the Queen, in which her Majesty is assured that those...

the Secretary of the National Anti-Gambling League, on the subject of Lord Rosebery's interest in horse- racing, Lord Rosebery explaining in a rather displeased tone that ali he...

the lawyers' amendments there is nothing more to fight about, for the resistance to the Liquor-duties fizzled, as it was certain to -do. On Tuesday, Colonel Lockwood moved an...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 101t.

TOPICS OF THE DAY THE ASSASSINATION OF M. CA.RNOT. T HE shameful crime of Sunday involves at least two grave misfortunes for Europe. One, and it may prove the greater, is that...

was murdere 3 on Sunday evening, and on Wednes- day afternoon France had again a President, and the machinery of the State was in full working order. Under the provisions of the...

T HERE are two very different views as to the feeling of the people towards the Government. One is that the Budget has done a good deal towards winning for the Government that...

M R. BALFOUR'S speech on Wednesday at the annual meeting of the British Economical Association was singularly frank and useful. Universal suffrage has un- doubtedly been of use...

The benevolent despot might be inclined to reply that it was perfectly useless to palter with the question, and -that the attempt to live on Achill must be forbidden by -law. "...

I N a sad world, in which Anarchism, assassination, and terrible catastrophes seem to fill the horizon, we have reason to be grateful to any one who provides us with a, little...

M R. BALFOUR, in the paper on " Naturalism and Ethics," which opens the July number of the Phila- delphia International Journal of Ethics, devotes himself to contrasting the...

T HE newspaper talk about the "affectionate regard" felt by all Englishmen for the Royal family, though very proper, is perhaps a little conventional. The English like to read...

G UILLEMOTS' eggs have this summer been sold in some of the best game-dealers' shops as a substitute for plovers' eggs, when the season for them was over. The Prince of Wales is...

T HERE is a garden of peace in the woods not fifty miles from London town, where a few weeks ago the laburnum hung its head, overburdened with its weight of gold, and soft...

THE DECLARATION ON THE INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES. ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTA.TOR:1 Sin,—I cannot help fearing, as you do, that many whe desire- real assistance on a...

T HERE is nothing in the world so irregular and so incal- culable, as the advent of spring in Greece. Those who wander over sea and land in search of climates perfectly suitable...

excellent article in the Spectator of June 23rd, on " The Declaration on the Inspiration of the Scriptures," is there not a question which precedes those you have dealt with,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—You have sympathy, and to spare, for the Duke of Devonshire, but a gentle rebuke, and nothing more, for "A Rural Victim." Is this...

"SPECTATOR. "] Stn,—As you have not published the text of the Decree against Bull-Fights, here it is.—I am, Sir, &c., P. E S.C. PCENITENTIARI2E. DITBI.A. DE SACERDOTIBUS...

Srst,—As you have mentioned my name in connection with a 'recent " Declaration," you will kindly let me say that my -share in the drafting of it was confined to a few...

[To THR EDITOR OW THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is pleasant in these disillusioned days to read "R. J. F.'s " enthusiastic forecast in the Spectator of June 16th of the results of...

EDMUND LUDLOW'S MEMOIRS.* THE publication during the last half-century of a number of documents bearing on the memoirs of the staunch old Regi- cide, such as Professor Stern's...

THE BREATH OF THE FURZE. THE breath of the furze came over the hill, On a moonlit night when the wind was still. From the tall, keen spires of the golden town That Spring has...

[To THE BDIT011 OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—I read your interesting article under above heading in the Spectator of June 23rd. At the outset you refer to the "Surprise Party,"...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, In your review in the Spectator of June 23rd of "A Green Bay-Tree," you take exception to our request that no review of the novel...

her unmistakable rank among contemporary writers, rightfully demand precedence for any work of hers which finds a place in a reviewer's parcel of fiction. The Prodigals and...

of select statutes and other constitutions/ documents, Mr. Prothero has done for the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. what the Bishop of Oxford in his well-known volume did for...

some provincial town, at which, after the usual loyal toasts had been honoured, Art was toasted as a means of getting a distinguished critic who was present, upon his legs. This...

Ix the work under our notice, the editor is directly respon- sible only for an introduction of a few pages, for notes principally containing references to original documents,...

on one of the earliest of English Biblical critics was that his work did not tend to edification. Professor Jowett, in a remarkable letter published in the Spectator of June...

(Rivington, Percival, and Co.)—These essays are republished from the catalogues of the exhibitions of the Arts and Crafts Society. Many of them, the work of men engaged in the...

(J. Rothschild, Paris.)—M. Yriarte has issued in a most sumptuous form, and with about fifty illustrations, the journal of a Florentine sculptor of the fifteenth century. Maso,...

The Tower Bridge. By C. Tuit. (The Engineer.)—In this volume Mr. Tuit tells the story of this great work "from the date of the earliest project to the present time." Full...

With Illustrations by Winifred Smith. (David Nutt.) —In England the amount of traditional lore of this kind is not very great. The collector finds that the games, accompanied by...

which is evidently of a most complicated kind,—the Local Government Act. As time goes on, the volumes become bigger and bigger, the theme evidently opening up new prospects the...

sub-title of this volume is " Memories of Manse Life in the Mearns, and a Crack shoot Auld Time." Mr. Inglis's father was minister of the parish when the Disruption took place....

Stock.)—This is not a book that we can review. It will be enough to describe it by its sub-title, " A Collection of Anecdotes, Illustrations, Legends, &c., for Teachers of...

Windus.)—We cannot congratulate Mr. Fenn on this effort. It is not in the manner to which we are accustomed from him, and the change is not by any means to our liking. Armstrong...

William Knight. (A. and C. Black.)—Professor Knight's Introduction is not the least interesting part of this volume. He gives in it the history of the office of Rector. The...

Co.)—This "Modern Story of Evolution," as the author describes it, is a really remarkable study of life. Christina Ruefold, daughter of an English missionary and a half-caste...

and Blacl - ett.)—This is a well-written story, constructed on the well- known lines of cross-purposes.. Janet Delille has made a great mi-t-le in her marriage, havipg fallen in...

by W. Crookes, F.R.S. 2 vols. (Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co.)— This is a quite admirable book. It is true that there is a certain difference between the condition of things in...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—This massive and sumptuous volume is 'a handsome memorial to an artist of some distinction and of great personal excellence. Mr. Calvert began life as...

of social sketches, connected together by a slender thread of story. There is little to be said about it, except that it is quite readable, not a book which one sits up to...

Windus.)—This is a clever novel, but with what we may call some loose ends about it. The "Common Ancestor" himself makes no little demand upon our faith. The tale is of the...

plain face, great riches, a sensitive nature, and a high ideal of what love should be,—these form a combination of cir- cumstances which make a woman's lot not a little hard to...

C. R. B. Barrett. (Bliss, Sands, and Foster.)—This is a highly interesting volume well and copiously illustrated. The advantage of having both pen and pencil used by the same...

Footman, M.A. (Elliot Stock.)—The name of Lambourn first occurs, we are told, in King Alfred's will. He gave the " home" there to his wife Ealswith. The church appears for the...

Co.)—This is an American book, and largely occupied with American heroes. Benjamin Franklin comes first in the list Fulton, the inventor, as he may be called, of the steamboat ;...

Hall.)—This is a thoroughly practical book. Mrs. Rochfort begins with a caution against extravagance, sadly needed in most English households, where that worst and most hopeless...

their Des- cendants." (Blackwood and Sons.)—Polwarth is a small parish— small, i.e., for Scotland—in the heart of Berwickshire. There are, as is indeed the case with every...

stable) we have the third out of a proposed twelve volumes. It contains the three comedies, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night. The plan is to arrange...

its way,—one on the work of the pencil, the other on the work of the pen. These are :—The Picture Magazine, Vol. III., January —June (Newnes and Co.) ; and Stories for Hearth...

England, the " Jubilee Edition." (Cassell and Co.)—It occupies something more than twelve years, beginning with the reference to arbitration of the "Alabama Claim," and carrying...

a handy little volume, supplying the practical information that a reader wants, and not worrying him with the superfluous. The " neighbourhood" includes, we see, Southwold, and...